strted out well....disapointing end

Rating: Null/10 (18 April 2004)

Warning SPOILERS
this film could have been so much more than it was. First of all this was mis-markeded as a horror film. more of a sci-fi feel to me. Not very scarry, as far as jump out of you seat fears, but really not too much of a creepy atmosphere. I liked the first half of the film in where our protaganist Jim wonders londen trying to figure out what is going on. yes it has been done many times before, but still is fun to see (the quite earth comes to mind---again the sci fin theme) after he mets the other uninfected people, we get a road trip with frank his doughter, jim, and his girl. all this was still ok with me. they heard a radio broadcast, and decide to drive to manchester, in the hopes that a cure is there, or the army that might be there, can offer them protection.
As soon as they leave london, the film goes downhill fast. Frank was dead from the first moment we saw him, and the way he died was not very clever. I dont even want to get into the mess that was the whole army man situation, but why do filmmakers feel we need to have a rambo type of rescue, before we can feel for our hero?
In the end I agree with what I have read here in many reviews, just not enough plot, was it a world wide epademic, or just Brittion, where were all the bodies, and if all you had to do ifs wait for them to starve, just get out of the cities, go up into the hills, and wait it out. plus just were the hell was the internet....couldent they have just sent an e-mail to the good ole USA, and get rescued. an ok film, with some nice individul shots, but overall a disapointment
4 out of 10